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That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum
社会 [9]: America is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we are failing to meet them—and if we delay any longer, soon it will be too late for us to pass along the American dream to future generations.        In...
Think In JAVA (the third edition)
Bruce Eckel
编程/技术 [9]: Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java - JavaWorld Editor's Choice Award for Best Book, 2001 JavaWorld Reader's Choice Award for Best Book, 2000 Software Development Magazine Productivity Award, 1999 Java Developer's Journal Editor's Choice Award ...
This Republic of Suffering
Drew Gilpin Faust
历史/纪实 [47]: More than 600,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be six million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust reveals the ways that death...
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
小说 [34]: (子乌注:《追风筝的人》的作者的另一本书~) It's difficult to imagine a harder first act to follow than The Kite Runner: a debut novel by an unknown writer about a country many readers knew little about that has gone on to have over four million copies in print...
The Time Machine
H. G. Wells
科幻/奇幻/玄幻 [2]: The book's protagonist is an amateur inventor or scientist living in London who is never named; he is identified simply as The Time Traveller. Having demonstrated to friends using a miniature model that time is a fourth dimension, and t...
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Gladwell Malcolm
Gladwell Malcolm [1]:   "The best way to understand the dramatic transformation of unknown books into bestsellers, or the rise of teenage smoking, or the phenomena of word of mouth or any number of the other mysterious changes that mark everyday life...
Too Big to Fail
Andrew Ross Sorkin
经济 [9]: Andrew Ross Sorkin delivers the first true behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. From inside the corner office at Lehman Brothers to secret...
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
小说 [9]: While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune.